The Japanese government said it is responding to "crimes and nuisances committed by some foreigners and inappropriate use of ...

William Sposato is a Tokyo-based journalist who has been a contributor to Foreign Policy since 2015. He has been following ...

Japan has worked hard to attract foreigners to boost its sluggish economy but now the perception there are too many has ...

Japan on Tuesday set up an administrative body aimed at easing citizens' concerns over the rapid rise in the number of ...

Japan’s Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba faces a critical test in Sunday’s upper house election. A loss could deepen political ...

A fringe far-right populist party in Japan was one of the biggest winners in the weekend’s upper house election ...

When politicians continue to stoke public alarm toward foreigners, they risk spreading xenophobic sentiment throughout ...

When depopulation becomes a national security risk.In 2024, the number of babies born in Japan fell to a record low for the ninth year in a row. With about 1.6 million deaths and 720,988 births, there ...

Whether after President Richard Nixon's delinking of the U.S. dollar from gold in 1971, which upended Japan's foreign and economic policy, the U.S. economic "Japan bashing" of the 1980s, or the U ...

Japanese were voting Sunday for seats in the smaller of Japan's two parliamentary houses in a key election with Prime ...